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Dennis Aftergut

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Washington Post readers aren’t buying Jeff Bezos’ excuse-making

Readers of the Washington Post flocked to read Jeff Bezos' essay this week defending his decision to stop his editorial board from endorsing Vice...

31.10.2024 20

Salon

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Fox News, Trump and democracy: A friendly place for Donald; enemy ground for Harris

21.10.2024 10

NY Daily News

Dennis Aftergut

The work of wooing the “Uncommitted”

A small band of activists was ready when leaders of the “Uncommitted movement” in Wisconsin and Michigan issued a statement last week urging their...

28.09.2024 10

Salon

Dennis Aftergut

Harris wins Round 1 over Trump with a knockout

11.09.2024 6

NY Daily News

Dennis Aftergut

Kamala Harris must now answer for her past positions — then she can flip the script on Trump

Critics say Kamala Harris has run a campaign long on style and short on substance. The media, they complain, has given her a pass. Late Sunday...

09.09.2024 10

Salon

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The point of Trump’s dishonor: Why the Arlington debacle is about more than the fallen

Much has been written about Donald Trump’s utter contempt for American patriotism as displayed at Arlington cemetery last week. Trump desecrating...

04.09.2024 40

Salon

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America’s first post-pandemic political party: COVID made the Democratic convention different

Much has been written about the joy and hope that lit up the Democratic convention. Little, however, has connected the festivities in Chicago to a...

27.08.2024 9

Salon

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What Harris can say to Gaza protesters

21.08.2024 9

NY Daily News

Dennis Aftergut

The truth about Trump's crowd size obsession: It's vote size that matters

Beyond the all-important battleground states, every vote counts in this November’s election. The reason? If Kamala Harris wins the Electoral College...

16.08.2024 9

Salon

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January 6 was a beta test for 2025

January 6, 2021, that day of presidential infamy, was also an experiment for Donald Trump and those who wanted to overturn a legitimate election...

07.08.2024 100

Salon

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Dog whistling past Dixie: Republicans are in over their heads playing the Kamala Harris race card

Donald Trump just made it official, in case you had doubts: The GOP is the party of racism, whether reverse-spun, dog-whistled or broadcast without...

03.08.2024 30

Salon

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The man who set the stage for an imperial presidency if Trump wins

Weeks after the extremist Supreme Court majority drove a truck over the rule of law in Trump v. United States , and with all that has...

26.07.2024 70

Salon

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It’s our democracy, America! A second Trump presidency would be nothing like the first

Just when you wonder how MAGA world’s love affair with violence could get any more torrid, they show you it can. On Friday, the New Republic’s...

10.07.2024 20

Salon

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The cynicism of the Supreme Court: Helping Trump kill the American experiment

Friday’s most significant Supreme Court decisions, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of...

30.06.2024 100

Salon

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How Joe Biden should handle the issue of Hunter’s conviction at the debate

“Mr. President, your son, Hunter Biden, has been convicted of felonies in connection with his purchase of a gun and lying about his drug use. He now...

27.06.2024 10

Salon

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3 answers to the most challenging debate questions for Joe Biden

Count on CNN moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper to try to put both candidates on the defensive with their questions during Thursday’s debate, the...

26.06.2024 5

Salon

Dennis Aftergut

First debate a chance for Biden to finish the Trump smackdown he started during State of the Union

Thursday’s debate gives President Joe Biden the opportunity to cash in on his challenge to Donald Trump last month to hold the earliest...

25.06.2024 20

Salon

Dennis Aftergut

Donald Trump’s probation interview

Following his conviction in Manhattan on all 34 felony counts, Donald Trump must have an interview with his New York City probation officer....

11.06.2024 10

NY Daily News

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Beyond a reasonable doubt: Trump's criminal conviction matters politically

Donald Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felony counts hands the master of branding with short vignettes a very heavy dose of his own medicine.   ...

08.06.2024 30

Salon

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5 jury instructions in Trump’s hush-money trial that suggest better than-even odds at conviction

Just before jurors in Donald Trump’s trial for falsifying business records went into deliberations on Wednesday, New York Justice Juan Merchan gave...

30.05.2024 20

Salon

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Trump’s Lawyer Botched His Closing Arguments. I Think I Know Why!

Tweet Share Share Comment Yesterday saw closing arguments in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump for falsifying business...

29.05.2024 20

Slate

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Closing time in People vs. Trump: Hush-money case rests on the Trump Tower conspiracy

The first mission of a prosecutor’s closing argument is cementing the elements of the crime to the evidence. On Tuesday in Manhattan, it will be...

24.05.2024 30

Salon

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Why Michael Cohen’s Testimony Will Be So High-Stakes

Tweet Share Share Comment With Stormy Daniels’ time on the witness stand soon to end, the suspense at Donald Trump’s...

08.05.2024 40

Slate

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SCOTUS majority abandons conservative principles to mount bizarre defense of Trump’s immunity claim

Yesterday’s message from the rightwing justices of the Supreme Court, particularly the male justices, was shocking to any believer in true,...

26.04.2024 100

Salon

Dennis Aftergut

Underestimating Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump is a historic mistake

Prosecutors are off to a strong start in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump. Their evidence is aimed at proving that the former president...

25.04.2024 10

Salon

Dennis Aftergut

Trump is on trial in that NYC courtroom — and so is Judge Juan Merchan

With jury selection now underway in People of the State of New York v. Donald Trump, the skill, wisdom, decisiveness and patience of the trial judge,...

15.04.2024 10

Salon

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Donald Trump faces justice: Criminal accountability is coming for him

In Manhattan on Monday, jury selection begins in a case whose historical significance is impossible to overstate — the first time a former president...

15.04.2024 10

NY Daily News

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Desperate for delay in New York criminal trial, Trump fires blanks to stop it

Last week, Donald Trump filed a new motion to delay his Manhattan prosecution for falsifying business records to cover up an election...

14.03.2024 10

Salon

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Suozzi beat Republicans at the GOP border game, key 2024 issue

Democrat Tom Suozzi scored a nationally significant victory in the special election in New York for the seat of expelled former Rep. George...

17.02.2024 10

NY Daily News

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The New Jan. 6 Testimony Against Trump Will Be Devastating at Trial

Tweet Share Share Comment On Sunday, ABC News reported on new evidence now in the hands of special counsel Jack Smith that...

09.01.2024 40

Slate

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Lordy, there are more tapes: How Trump's Michigan arm-twisting may come back to haunt him

Lordy, there are tapes. Make that, MORE tapes! On Thursday, the Detroit Free Press reported that it had a recording from November 17,...

23.12.2023 10

Salon

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Shocking verdict against Rudy Giuliani serves as a warning shot for Donald Trump

On Friday, a DC jury spoke for fairness,  the rule of law, and for everyone who is ready to stand up to the cruelty and deception of the MAGA...

17.12.2023 10

Salon

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Texas Republicans drove Kate Cox out of her own state. What her abortion story means for America

It's impossible for any man, without the experience of pregnancy, to fully comprehend the unbearable trauma that Kate Cox just endured. At the same...

13.12.2023 10

Salon

Dennis Aftergut

A dictator on "day one": The time to push back on Trump is now

When Donald Trump acknowledged in a Fox News town hall on Tuesday his intent not to abuse power as retribution against anybody, “ except for Day...

07.12.2023 10

Salon

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Trump’s Attempt to Delay His Jan. 6 Trial Receives a Double Blow

Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday, two federal courts in Washington rejected parallel claims by former President Donald Trump...

04.12.2023 10

Slate

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